Can Murdoch keep his FCC license if he is convicted of a crime?

[Kingofalldems]

Should be interesting.

[FreakinDJ]

1. No but the Corporation can

Corps are people too

[Uncle Joe]

3. Corpse are people too, that's what they said about Frankenstein,

a bunch of them actually.

[former9thward]

2. Murdock does not have a FCC license.

Held by multi-layer corporations which are publicly owned. Murdoch is a shareholder. If Murdock were convicted of a crime it would have no meaning to the corporation.

[wtbymark]

5. Fox "News" also does not have a license because..

cable-only stations (this includes Direct and Dish) are not required to have an FCC license because they are not a 'broadcast station' and therefore do not use the public 'airwaves'

on edit: now Fox Broadcasting channel (Simpsons, Family Guy, Football etc.) has at least a few hundred licenses. You could go after this channel, but it would not touch Faux newz.

[former9thward]

6. Correct. That slipped my mind.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Yeah but if the company was involved

More info downthread.

[21st Century FDR]

4. Considering how the laws were bent to allow him to become a US citizen

and changed to allow him to build his media empire in the 1990s, nothing would surprise me. :(

[MineralMan]

7. Surely you don't think the FCC licenses are in his name, right?

The corporation holds those licenses. Nothing that happens to Murdoch will change the licensing. He'll just sell of his holdings in the corporations and move to some nice beach. Seriously.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Well I just looked it up and according to Court TV

and others the license can and will be challenged. The Feds can also have the license taken if his company is in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Look out!

[wtbymark]

10. thats only for Family Guy & Football

I will reiterate: Fox News channel does not have an FCC license (even if re-broadcast on airwaves, the license would be the re-broadcasting station's)

Im currently sitting as a cheif engineeer of a TV station that is on DirectTV and I will tell you we dont have a license, never had one, 4th year on the air. This is considered pay-per-view

[Kingofalldems]

11. I never said it did.

[wtbymark]

12. then what license are you talking about?

theres only 2 ways I see Faux going down. The DOJ would either have to revoke News Corp.'s charter, or News Corp has to go belly up.

[Kingofalldems]

13. This is about Murdoch and his evil actions not specifically

Fox news.

[Kolesar]

14. "Fox" owned WJW-TV-Cleveland and other TV stations, IIRC

Those are "real" broadcasters.